Photo credit: @Athletics

By: Amaury Pi-Gonzalez

The Red Sox are the hottest team in baseball and they’re coming to Oakland this weekend to take on the Oakland A’s.

The Red Sox won last night at Anaheim, they have won six games in a row and have the best record in baseball of 15-2. That is the best start of a season for the Red Sox in their 118-year history.  They are first team in baseball to begin a season 15-3 since the 2003 San Francisco Giants. Red Sox rookie manager is 42-year-old Alex Cora, who was born in Caguas, Puerto Rico. The Red Sox will play one more game against the Angels at Anaheim tonight before coming to Oakland for a big weekend series and only visit of the Red Sox to Oakland.

The A’s just ended a sweep of the woeful Chicago White Sox. They scored a total of 30 runs on those three games. Yesterday a 14 inning 12-11 slugfest victory took 5 hours and 48 minutes.  Today, on a day off, they have an 9-10 record and are in fourth place 4.5 games behind the leading LA Angels.

The American League West is a tough division, with Astros, the 2017 World Champions, much improved LA Angels, the Seattle Mariners, Texas Rangers. The A’s are trying to finish at least .500 this month.

Last year on the 1st of June, the A’s were already 14.5 games out of the first place Astros, who went on to beat everybody the rest of the way to capture their first ever title.

The Boston Red Sox, just like the New York Yankees, traditionally bring lots of fans to the Coliseum every time they visit.  It should be a fun place to be with perfect weather this weekend at the O.co. Coliseum.

Play Ball!

Oakland Athletics
KIQI 1010AM/990AM ESPAÑOL
NBC SPORTS CA on the SAP Channel ESPAÑOL

Saturday April 21
Red Sox vs Athletics will be televised nationwide on MLB Network.